{draft} to a set of poets, regarding (dirty) talk

This is meant to be delivered as spoken word; maybe I'll perform it one day, who knows. I haven't written poetry since high school, and I haven't written anything 'artistic' for the past two years or so, but ah, I was inspired, as you will soon understand.

Here's a taping of a performance of Rives' "Dirty Talk" for reference. At any point that I'm quoting it, I imagine the cadence of reading this to match.

Also the ending is the weakest part of this, sigh. Needs work.

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